to be honest i think i agree with kurian on this one. it's annoying to check over here and it's always a bsp (for a party i've known about for ages and will be at christ already how many invites do i already have for it????!!!!!!) and rarely do the bsps even lead to a discussion of the event cause we have beatchurch and false profit and club janky and get freaky and god knows how many others for all that.... i mean, is there anyone in this tribe who isn't a part of at least one of those others?

Believe me, it's not only THIS tribe that suffers from the online equivalent of a windshield full of flyers for some wannabe-massive. But I happen to care enough about this genre that it offends me a bit more here than elsewhere.

Many, MANY tribes suffer from the same syndrome. I mean, what's the point of having a discussion group for your crew, or your musical interest if the whole page is just BSPs? (And often unrelated to the specific tribe to boot.) I don't know about you, but I find it pretty disrespectful for someone who never posts to pop up with an event blast and disappear again, and not even take the time to post it as a listing. It's kinda like some neighbor kid taking a crap on my porch.

IMHO, it's really as simple as asking people to post their events as LISTINGS instead of topics. And removing any that aren't. Makes room for some conversation at least.

My "pull the plug" comment was intended to be ironic, not a genuine suggestion. I just couldn't believe there wasn't a single post that wasn't a BSP.

Now as for whether there's anything to talk about... you folks are really going to tell me that there's no one producing anything breaks-like currently that's worthy of mention?

(Shit, you're gonna make me do some homework, ain'tcha?)

I guess I was hoping for this tribe to be a place where people could talk about breaks beyond the bay area, about the music and culture in general. But that community doesn't seem to have emerged, perhaps even because we're busy on other tribes talking about our own scene and upcoming activities. I certainly didn't do anything to foster it. And there's also the groundscore forums and BijouBreaks providing places for people to get that done. So is this tribe just the appendix of online breakbeat conversation? A gall bladder on the information super-getting-high-way?